Posted: November 14, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Tags: Architecture, Buildings, Business, children, college, cornfield, country, Government, Housing, londonderry, new urbanism, Rybczynski, town-country
Back in my undergrad days, I started putting up my papers online for people to see. So I decided, what the hell, I’ll keep the tradition alive in grad school as well with anything that may be interesting. Peer review is always good too, of course. For those curious, you can buy the book here and see the official New Daleville website here.
On to the review…
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Posted: October 17, 2009 at 9:14 pm | Tags: college, comment, Detroit, free press, journalism, Macomb County, macomb daily, news, sarah cormier, school
Unlike many of my comrades, I usually take it easy on the mainstream media. After all, they’re just people trying to do their jobs, usually. Particularly, I’ve shied away from making comments about news outlets that gave me positive press during the past school board elections.
However the other day, I finally hit my breaking point The Macomb Daily is not news. It is fluff, bullshit, and the most half-assed reporting I have ever seen in my life. It’s amazing the things that this paper considers to be the most important news items of the day.
For example, take a look at the coverage from the other day. This was the front page of their website. :
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Posted: September 13, 2009 at 2:05 pm | Tags: Apple, college, country, Girls, History, HP, Job, Markets, oakland university, opencourseware, picture, Pictures, profiles, public, school, st. john, university, wayne state, work
I was recently discussing the issue of the Oakland University strike with someone. While the pay and benefits are obviously big factors in collective bargaining agreements, something else came up. One of his talking points for supporting the strike, well, stuck me. He was the notion of intellectual property in the classrooms and who it actually belongs to: do the lessons belong to the professors or the University.
Well, he wasn’t the least bit pleased about the idea of putting lessons online for people to see. He didn’t think it fair that “some kid in Oklahoma” could view the lessons and “learn for free”. Realistically, if schools like Yale, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, etc. all do this and see no threat, than Oakland University has absolutely no argument and no reason to be threatened. Lets take a look at why.
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